File Naming Convention for Subtitles and Audio

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@robtheone

I use Plex for watching most of my media, and I have issues with it finding the subtitle files, even though they are placed as an .SRT file right in the same folder and the .MP4 file. Plex wants the subtitle file to match the MP4 file name, but have a 2 or 3 digit language code added at the end. Right now, IF plex can find the subtitle file, it always displays as “Unknown (SRT External)”. If I add ENG to the file name as in: filename.eng.srt, then Plex will display the file as an English subtitle, and then automatically select that file, based on my preferences.

I have searched for a way to add the ENG to the end of the subtitle file name systematically via MCEBuddy, but can not find that option. Is that available?

This features has been added in Release 2.4.9

MCEBuddy will now detect the language name from the SRT file name (e.g. filename.fre.srt) from the metadata inside the file if the subtitles is being extracted from the original video file and use this 3 digit language code in the final SRT filename.

MCEBuddy can read Plex and Serviio subtitle filename formats including the .forced tag to parse the language name.

It also include the language tag in the MP4 and MKV files metadata for the subtitle tracks. If there is no language code detected then it will use the 3 digit code from the language selected in the MCEBuddy settings page.